The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, exploit and sell participations in companies of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad. The company can develop, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, exploit, sell and transfer patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights as well as technical and industrial know-how in Switzerland and abroad. The company can also acquire, hold, manage, encumber, exploit and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can participate (directly or indirectly) in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders, other group companies or third parties, or by providing guarantees or other securities of any kind for their or its own liabilities to third parties, including by means of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, joint and several liability or suretyships, or by otherwise securing or guaranteeing their or its own obligations, even if these loans, securities, etc. are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are granted free of charge. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment / concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with these group companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. The company can do this without consideration, on preferential terms, without the company's profit motive and by taking on cluster risks. The company can conduct all commercial, financial and other business that appears to promote the company's purpose, is directly or indirectly related to its purpose or is in the interest of the group or its group companies.